Hi! * Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> [20030115 04:20]: > >>>>> "Rolf" == Rolf Kutz <kutz@netcologne.de> writes: > Rolf> * Quoting Joshua SS Miller (joshua@fitsnips.net): > >> Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier > >> today. Do you have a good resource for this? > > Rolf> http://www.kerneli.org/index.php > > Do the kerneli modules (officially) work with encrypted swap? I know > loop-AES does, but I couldn't find anything about the kerneli > (cryptoapi/cryptoloop) modules. (For loop-AES, do a Google search for > it.) > > When encrypting swap, you need to make sure that you don't allocate new > memory. Otherwise, it may cause some swapping, which makes you do > encryption, which may allocate new memory, ad infinitum. loop-AES takes > care of that explicitly, by preallocating memory, but I don't think > cryptoapi/cryptoloop does, so you may be taking your chances with it. FUD alert! I like loop-AES, too, and would REALLY love general inclusion into Debian kernels, but this doesn't mean the authors of alternatives are/may be idiots. Please don't spread Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt without referring to facts you're sure of. Leave that to Mickeysoft ;) My EUR 0.02. Count -- Andreas Kotes - ICQ: 3741366 - The views expressed herein are (only) mine. Unser Leben ist das, wozu unser Denken es macht. -- OpenPGP key 0x8F94C228 Our Life is what our thinking makes it.. Your mind is a weapon! Load it ..
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